Agile Coach

Talworx Solutions; Gurugram District, Jaipur, Delhi; Hybrid; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Talworx Solutions is seeking an Agile Coach (SPC Certified Mandatory) to lead and mentor agile teams across the organization, drive SAFe practices, and enable continuous improvement.

You will conduct SAFe workshops, map value streams to execution, and work with leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management, while coaching leaders in servant leadership. Applicants should have 10–15 years of total experience, plus an MBA/Engineering degree and multiple agile certifications.

Qualifications

• Total experience 10-15 years with Scrum Master and Agile Coaching.
• MBA or Engineering degree.
• Multiple certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF.
• Experience with scaling Agile frameworks.
• Experience coaching at Portfolio, ART and Teams levels.
• Strong facilitation and coaching tools and models.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and mentoring agile teams.
• Agile maturity assessments and continuous improvement.
• Train RTEs, Scrum Masters and Product Owners to adopt agile practices.
• Identify value streams and map OKRs to execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels.
• Facilitate ART Launch and Kaizens.
• Support Lean Portfolio Management with leadership.
• Conduct SAFe workshops and governance activities.
• Drive DevOps integration and value delivery across teams.

Skills

Coaching

Agile

SAFe

LeSS

CSP

PSM-II

ICP-ACC

ICP-ATF

DevOps

Facilitation

Leadership

Kanban

Mentoring

Education

MBA/Engineering

Tools

XP

Kanban

TDD

CI/CD

Automation

Continuous Delivery

Job description

Agile Coach (SPC Certified Mandatory)

Role & responsibilities

• Coaching and mentoring agile teams
• Agile Maturity assessment and enabling team to continuously improve
• Train teams (RTEs, scrum masters, product owners) to adopt agile working practices
• Value stream identification, value stream analysis and value stream mapping,
• Mapping OKRs/ Organization goals to Execution at Portfolio, ART and Team Levels
• Facilitating ART Launch
• Execution of Kaizens in ART release for efficiency improvement
• Working with Leadership to establish Lean Portfolio Management group
• Conduct Big room trainings, brainstorming session and various SAFe Workshops like Inspect & Adapt, Stakeholder identification, QMS alignment etc.
• Define revised org structure based on Agile
• Stakeholder management, influencing and running project governance, change management and benefits realization
• Model Agile behavior & mindset and able to coach leaders and managers in empowerment and servant leadership-based management of teams and team-members
• Use a variety of Agile facilitation, mentoring, coaching, and teaching techniques in individual and team settings to help introduce/ improve on Agile mindset, practices, and tools.
• Lead the development of a culture where development team and operations work together for continuous delivery of value using DevOps principles and practices
• Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
• Conducting team agility assessments effectively to evaluate and drive potential improvement areas in the Agile teams
• Able to apply systems thinking to measure, analyze, and remove impediments across the delivery value stream
• Actively scans the external environment to stay abreast of, and create internal awareness of new trends in Agile frameworks, concepts and capabilities
• Setup and drive Communities of Practices (CoP) that help enable sharing best practices across the organization

Preferred candidate profile

• Overall 10-15 years of total experience including significant experience being a Scrum Master and 4-6 years in Agile Coaching
• Full time MBA / Engineering / equivalent
• Software development experience is preferred
• One or more of certifications such as SAFe, LeSS, CSP, PSM-II, CEC, SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF is a plus
• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
• Coaching skills at different levels of the Organizations (Portfolio, ART and Teams) and Leadership
• Should be aware and leverages a rich set of facilitation, training and coaching tools, and models and knows when to apply them
• Should have experience in implementing one or more Scaling Agile frameworks.